Suba Das Directs

I’m thrilled (well that’s an understatement right there) to be able to reveal that this summer I’ll be directing the world premiere of HOPE LIGHT AND NOWHERE, the second play by Andrew Sheridan. Andrew won the Bruntwood Prize for his first play, Winterlong, produced by the Royal Exchange and Soho Theatre in 2011.

The show has won the Ideastap Underbelly Award, and opens as a flagship production at the Underbelly as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In the words of none other than Simon Stephens, it’s a ‘savage poem of a play… [by]… the most exciting new writer to appear in British Theatre in the past five years’.

It’s an honour to be trusted with a truly incredible play, and I’ve pulled together a damn exciting creative team comprising my recent Young Vic collaborator Jean Chan, who will join us in rehearsals after she completes her first show for Complicite, Lionboy (Bristol Old Vic and touring, co-designed with Jon Bausor); composer Patrick Gleeson (composer for last year’s Edinburgh smash hit A Clockwork Orange); and lighting designer Richard Howell, winner of this year’s Lighting Design Off West End Award.

More details are at www.hopelightnowhere.co.uk. Hope to see you in Edinburgh….